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How many investing related emails are in your inbox right now? How many tabs on your browser do you have opened to an investing article that you really want to read? I have a subscriptions to the WSJ and as a result have a rain forest worth of paper piled on my office floor. Add […]

I had a conversation with Buffett this week and it turns out that he thinks I’m a genius. A more accurate way of expressing that would be to say that I began reading The Intelligent Investor again this week and Buffett made some statements that really reinforced a lot of the themes I try to […]

Should You Pay $1000 for an Investing Newsletter? | Around the Web Expensive investing newsletters stress me out. I’m very averse to paying high dollar prices but can’t help but wonder if it’s worth it in the end. After all, in my experience, I typically get what I pay for with stuff like this. To […]

Most Recent Investing Failure | Negative Market Divergences | Around the Web I’ve been talking about the success of my $GDX, $SLV, and $VXX options experiment over the past few months. Time to talk about a similar experiment that failed miserably. As I’ve mentioned before, I either subscribe or have access to a number of […]

I had a conversation with someone about income inequality last week. The issue gets a lot of press these days and the general tone always seems to be that “poor” people are struggling and its “rich” people’s fault. It’s typically viewed as a way to pick on wealthy people. (What would your life be like […]

Last weekend my wife left me. Don’t worry, I actually sent her away. I guess that still sounds bad, let me start over. Last weekend was my wife’s birthday so I arranged for her and her mom to go to the beach for the weekend while I stayed at home with our young son. (This […]

Are you tired of hearing about the #Brexit vote? You should be. (I don’t recommend kissing strangers, regardless of the presence of exquisite face paint.) To be clear, I’m not saying the Brexit is not important, it certainly is, but the media hype-fest has not been very helpful to anyone. Here’s what you need […]

Years ago I read a book by Nassim Taleb that talked about his very unique investing philosophy. I was intrigued, but afraid to take action. Recently, I watched a movie that prompted me to start a small experiment using a philosophy borrowed from Taleb and The Big Short. Gains in excess of 100% and 200% […]